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So does FraudStalinBook. Starve THEM of revenue. In your browser, turn off/block what is called cross site tracking, block Google analytics. Huh?
When you jump around to various websites, most of them have script buried in the web pages that collect data for Google or StalinBook. They sell the info gained to companies.
Example: You browse at 5 different web sites looking for bed comforters. Suppliers of bed comforters buy that info from Google (DO MAXIMUM EVIL) and StalinBook. Next thing you notice, you are getting targeted ads or emails for those items. If you block that information, these tech dark overlords HAVE NOTHING OF VALUE TO SELL AND MAKE REVENUE FROM. THEIR STOCK PRICE GOES DOWN. Zuckerburg's personal net worth goes down.
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This is a good topic. Identity & Signing are also important.
I have some degree of experience working with encryption and the app services level, but that may not be suitable for mail and stuff. PGP was mentioned recently.
We should all post our public signatures on our home page. Someone one need to provide guidance.
If you are using a web service hosted in the US, they are probably using your data to make money. It wont be personally identifying, but it's not really free, or secure.
Swiss and German hosted email services, on the other hand, are highly regulated with what they can do with a customer's information.
So about free...why not pay for the service. Most providers come in at about $30-35 per year. with the exception of protonmail.
Aide from price, the other thing to consider is what information you have to give up to get the service. i.e.- do you have to provide your real name, address, phone number, etc.
First recommendation. Get a PayPal account. It's easy, free, secure, and it will convert purchases for services to euros when you pay for the service.
Three options:
Protonmail.com- This is swiss-based. You can get one free email address. The down side is you cannot access from a web browser, or an email client like Thunderbird or Outlook. This is because is its truly end to end encrypted, server side, during transmission, and when you access it in their app on a device. If you want more email addresses, you have to pay. I do not use this service because I can't access via a web browser.
Posteo.com - This is a german-based company. Lowest tier is 1 euro per month. You get a primary email address, and two aliases. There is no dedicated app, and uses SMTP/POP server so it can be accessed from the web, or traditional email programs on Mac or PC. I use this service as it is cheap, and does what I need t to with end to end encryption, and no data sharing by the company. Added bonus is the ability to change the domain tag to make it look like you originate from outside the US. ie- abcdef@posteo.de rather than abcdef@posteo.com
Tutanota.com - This is a german-based company. Lowest tier is 25 euros (~$35) per year. You get a primary email address, and four aliases. It is basically the same as posteo, above. This one, though, does have an app, and can be accessed via web browser. I also have an account with this service.
So why do I have two paid accounts with two different services? Well, one is a backup in case I forget a password for the other. Also, one is for serious stuff, and the other for fluff. I also have aliases set up for junk website sign-ups and stuff, and I'll just delete the alias at the end of the year and start fresh with a new alias for 2022.
Why PayPal? With each of the services above, using PayPal allows you to make a payment without providing any information on my real identity to the email provider companies. Even if someone wanted to reveal who is using my email, they cant. The provider doesn't record IP traffic, and the emails are encrypted. And, the bill is paid anonymously. Now of course, they could trace forward to see that I have paid for the service, bu not backward starting with the email address.
Anyway, screw the free-mail providers. Stop being a cheapskate and shell out a few bucks to a company who respects your privacy.
And thats all there is too it. Nobody can understand that message (actually its just three uuid4s ;-) ).
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Keeping this for further examination.
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Encrypt your data and texts, too.
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When I’m on my laptop, I use Tor and TorGuard, a VPN. I have emcrypted email available through my VPN, which is not required to comply with requests from the US government.
It’s $56 annually and I’m thrilled with it. That’s about the same rate as XBox Live.
Currently, having just bought my first Android phone, I’m running with DDG. Not sure where else to go from here, though.
One of the easiest way to NULL OUT all the trackers like Goggle (MAXIMUM EVIL) analytics is to put entries in your Windows hosts files like this
0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
When the Windows IP protocol tries to get DNS info for “www.google-analytics.com”, it will use any entries found in the hosts file first, and then stop looking, not issuing a query to the DNS server configured in the network adapter.
So snoopy javscript embedded in web pages like those on FR (below) always are NO GO, rendered impotent.
script src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js” type=”text/javascript”
urchinTracker();
Don’t use any Firefox (Mozilla) products. They exposed themselves to be the enemy. Use Brave browser and ProtonMail.
Would love to drop gmail - but it would take me a month to find and update all the areas where my email is used.
I guess that I would have to run 2 email accounts for a while to make sure I didn’t miss anything important that I take for granted.
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How’s that?